Respected Parents,

There is a marked difference between people who passively float along with the current and people who are committed to passionate living. While the former gradually resign themselves to their mundane life of passivity, the latter make their lives deeply meaningful not only for themselves but for others also. They, as Michel de Montaigne says, are the people whose value of life does not lie in the length of their days but in the use they make of them.

In the journey of life we often fill ourselves with a lot of useless stuff like regrets, feelings of guilt, anger, self-blame, negativity and lack of forgiveness all of which stifle our growth and prevent us from leading a life of true freedom and happiness.

Dear friends, life presents yet another opportunity to realize that what really matters in life is the journey itself . Therefore, stop placing too much undue importance on things that bring no value to your journey of life. Instead, start filling your life with things that really matter and bring meaning to it with values such as true friendship, altruism, compassion and generosity.